How to Build Your Own PC - Page 8

The Floppy Disk

What do i have to say about this thing? Hmm.. this thing still exist to make a boot disk.

You need a FDD to access floppy disks. Although floppy disks are limited in capacity, only 1.44 mb, every old PC is almost guaranteed to have a FDD. Floppy disk drives and now coming the end of their life span as some current PCs are built without a floppy drive. This is due to the popularity of USB Flash drives.

Criteria for choosing floppy disk

It really does not matter which one of FDD you purchase as they are cheap and performs the same task.

Conclusion

Even CDs and DVDs are bootable now. Don't buy this if you're not going to take any advantage from this device ^_^.

Thats almost all of the basic devices for PC. Ok now, lets assemble the hardwares.